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HR & Payroll · 456.7K followers · LinkedIn benchmark, last 12 months (original)

data through 2026-07-30

Report card vs prior 12 months

Posts

613

+98%

Posts/wk

11.8

+100%

Median eng.

116

+2%

Smart avg

170.6

+3%

Total eng.

130.2K

+93%

Baseline vs market

  • Median engagement 116 top 7% of 87 tracked companies
  • Posts per week 11.7 top 5% of 87 tracked companies
  • Engagement per 1K followers 0.47 top 90% of 84 tracked companies

Industry percentile withheld: only 3 tracked HR & Payroll companies (needs 4+).

What worked

  • Product Update — smart avg 253.3 across 70 posts (2.2× typical)
  • Company Update — smart avg 224.8 across 31 posts (1.9× typical)
  • Hiring / Recruiting — smart avg 194.1 across 69 posts (1.7× typical)
  • Personal Story — smart avg 171.5 across 41 posts (1.5× typical)
  • Meme / Humor — smart avg 168.1 across 65 posts (1.4× typical)

Best format: Carousel (smart avg 237.1, 53 posts). Best day: Wednesday. Best time block: 12am–3am UTC. Floors: 31+ posts per category, 31+ per timing bucket.

Who carried it

  • 1. Carrie Ball · Recruiter28.6K engagement over 95 posts (74% of team engagement)
  • 2. Ankur Bhatt · AI Eng Lead4.0K engagement over 47 posts (11% of team engagement)
  • 3. Vipin Sethi · VP Controller2.5K engagement over 12 posts (6% of team engagement)

Top-person dependency: 74% of team engagement rides on one poster.

Top posts

  • 2025-09-02 · Carrie Ball · Meme / Humor8.4K eng. (8.1K likes · 190 comments · 97 shares)

    Me: What made you respond to my inmail? Candidate: Your surname caught my eye

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  • 2026-03-18 · Company page · Product Update6.9K eng. (3.6K likes · 2.1K comments · 1.2K shares)

    Today, we’re introducing Rippling AI. Rippling AI makes you a better decision maker, every day. And it saves you time by taking care of tedi

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  • 2026-01-19 · Carrie Ball · Hiring / Recruiting2.9K eng. (2.7K likes · 147 comments · 6 shares)

    💌 I reached out to a passive candidate on linkedin 7 months ago 👎🏻 They said thanks but no thanks, timing not good 👋🏻 They just message

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Summary

  • Posting pace rose 100% vs the prior 12 months (5.9/wk → 11.8/wk).
  • Product Update posts earned 2.2× the company's typical post (70 posts).
  • Carrie Ball drove 74% of team engagement — a single-poster dependency worth watching.
  • Median engagement of 116 sits in the top 7% of 87 tracked companies.
2025-08-022026-08-02 · Benchmark by Imagine AI · methodology at benchmark.imagineai.me/dashboard/methodology